The Organs of the Senses Familiarly Described,

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rare popular anatomy by the neurologist who identified bell's palsy First and only edition of this rare popular work by the anatomist, neurologist, and artist Charles Bell (1774-1842), with twenty simple but attractive hand-coloured lithographs, likely by the author. WorldCat locates only eighteen copies, and it is not listed in auction records or in the Garrison-Morton Medical Bibliography. Bell undertook his surgical training in Edinburgh during the 1890s, and at the same time studied art with the painter David Allen, publishing his System of Dissections, a guide for anatomy students, while himself still a student in 1798. 'In 1802 he published The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings. He provided his own illustrations to this work, and insisted that in this department of anatomy in particular the task could not be left to an artist who lacked a training in the field... Along with [his brother] John Bell he also published an Anatomy of the Human Body. Charles's special contribution on the anatomy of the brain and nerves appeared in 1804. The work passed through numerous editions' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). As a surgeon in London after 1804 Bell continued developing his special interest in the nervous system, and set out to show that the brain was not an undifferentiated mass, but that its parts had separate functions, which could be proved anatomically by severing the nerves leading to the rest of the body. The results were published in

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